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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Linux firmware vulnerabilities (USN-3505-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105038

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3505-1 advisory.

 Mathy Vanhoef discovered that the firmware for several Intel WLAN devices incorrectly handled WPA2 in relation to Wake on WLAN. A remote attacker could use this issue with key reinstallation attacks to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2017-13080, CVE-2017-13081)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected linux-firmware, nic-firmware and / or scsi-firmware packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3505-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105038

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3505-1.nasl

Version: 3.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/6/2017

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.9

Temporal Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-13081

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:scsi-firmware, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nic-firmware, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-firmware

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-13080, CVE-2017-13081

IAVA: 2017-A-0310

USN: 3505-1